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Growing Food Connections Launches Website to Train Communities Across the U.S. in Food Systems Planning

By Rachel Teaman

Communities looking to broaden access to healthy food and
sustain local farms and food production have a new resource:www.GrowingFoodConnections.org,
a repository of information on food systems planning.

The site is run by Growing Food Connections, an initiative to
strengthen community food systems nationwide, and will grow to
include such resources as a Community Guide to Planning for Food
and Agriculture.

The Growing Food Connections website will serve as a repository of information on food systems planning.

The five-year, $3.96 million initiative is funded by the
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative of the National Institute
of Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The
American Planning Association is a key project partner along with a
National Advisory Committee of leaders in agriculture, food systems
and public health.

“Communities increasingly are looking for ways to connect
their populations – particularly the under-served –
with healthy, affordable and culturally acceptable food while
fostering a viable agricultural sector,” said Samina Raja,
PhD, UB associate professor of urban and regional planning,
director of the Food Lab and a principal investigator for Growing
Food Connections.

The new website, along with the initiative’s direct
extension activities in these communities, led by the American
Farmland Trust, will ensure planning officials have the tools they
need to develop, implement and maintain policy solutions to sustain
agriculture and strengthen their food systems.

“This effort is unique,” suggests Julia Freedgood,
assistant vice president of programs at American Farmland Trust,
“because it builds capacity of local governments to support
family farmers and ranchers as a path toward community food
security.”

Kimberley Hodgson, planner and principal
of Cultivating Healthy Places, notes that “the website will
provide local government officials with a range of tools to assist
them in developing their own food system plans and
policies.”

A social networking forum and webinars will support information
sharing and peer-to-peer dialogue across participating communities.
Forthcoming is a comprehensive database of local and regional
public policies, from food production ordinances to food system
plans and local procurement policies, to facilitate policy
change.

With information on continuing education, doctoral programs in
food systems planning and policy at Ohio State University and
University at Buffalo and student internship opportunities, the
website also supports Growing Food Connections’ goal to
develop an educational framework for the next generation of food
systems planners.

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